Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-12-03
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[s, ecisl Correspondence ot the Alexis GAzETrsl
WASHINGTON. d. G.. Disc. 3. 1857

WASHINGTON, ID. u. D,c %. 1901
The democratic Senators held another
caucus this morning to determine upon their
course of proceeding on Monday next when
the session Of Congress will commence IL
is hardly probable that they will insist upon
thei- previously expressed intention ofoppos'
ing the admission OF any new Senators unless
Senators Turpie and Faulkner, to whose ad'
mission the republicans may think they
have grounds to object, be included, Tor
such action could not be successfully de-
Tended and would establish bad precedent.
If there be objections to the admission OF the
two Senators referred TO, according to all
rule. law and precedent their cases should
be referred to the committee on elections,
and probably will be.
1t being definitely known that MIR. FRANK
Price failed to pass the examination to which
he was subjected last Thursday, Mr.. YOU
mans. Chief Clerk of the Treasury Depart.
ment. upon whose recommendation the ap'
pointment is made, told the GAZETTE's cor
respondent to day that he now saw moth,
ing that would prevent the appointment OF
Mr.. William Moore of Alexandria to The
position of assistant engineer OF the heating
room of the Treasury Department.
It lis reported at the Capitol to day that
the wives of the members of the U. >. gu
preme Court don't think Mr.. Nicoay, the
marshal of that court, is stylish enough iol
the show duties of his position, and that he
should be replaced by man better quail
fed for such duties.
or the U. S. House of Representatives to
assemble next Monday not more than TWEEN
ty members are above the average man,
either in natural or acquired intelligence.
An idea of its character may be obtained
from the fact that the election of door
keeper seems now Of more Importance to
many of its members than decision upon
serious measures Of revenue. Another sug
gestiye indication is that one ex editor here
has already been applied to by five mem
| bers to prepare for them speeches on the
| tariff question.
The general impression to day is that Mr.
Hurt will he elected doorkeeper of the
House, vice Donaldson, the incumbent. The
| representatives from the Northeastern
States who held conference last night aud
talked about running Mr.. Raines. of New
York, for the place. will, it issaid to.dSSV,sGi,p:
port Mr. Hurt and thu Win viii ar. Hurt sub
stituted tor Mr.. Donaldson, the whole ticket
will 20 through the caucus without much op.
position and will even receive the support Of
Mr.. Carlisle, who has heretofore been inclu
ded amoug Mr.. Donaldson's supporters.
Gen. Field, one of the best doorkeepers the
House ever had, has teiegraphed to dem
ocratic congressman that in case Of squabe
BILE he can present his name to the caucus.
Among the guests at the Metropolitan
Hotel to-day are Messrs. Bowen, Brown and
Gaines, three of the republican congress.
men from Virginia.
A dispatch received here from New York
to day says the directors of the Richmond
and West Pon. Terminal Railway met there
Yesterday but took no action ofimportanCe,
and that the fiepds Of Alfred Sully still
claim that they will be successful in retain.
ing Mr.. Suly az president, but that this ia
not conceded BY the friends of the compro
misc directors ticket.
During the next administration three gen
ersl officers ADD every general staff officer,
except two, will retire under the law retir
ing officers sixty four years OF age, and the
President elected next year will appoint
their successors This fact will make all the
army officers active partisans in the next
Presidential campaign.
The State Department is in a great Autter
to day about the fuss its unnecessary reop.
ening of the famous Cutting case has kicked
up in Mexico 1t is said at the department
that no actual demand for a money indem-
nifty has been made. and that the case was
only reopened in o:der that an arrangement
could be made by which future cases of a
similar character could be settled without
any unpleasantness.
Appointment temperance man from Vir.
ginia, here to-day, says the Grand Lodge of
Good Templars of bis State, which will meet
iu Charlottesville next Tuesday, will
have to consider that section of the new
constitution adopted at the last meeting of
the Grand Lodge Of the World, which pro.
vides for the abolition of all race distinction
within the order, and that its discussion will
probably be very lively.
1t has only recently become generally known
that every retiring presiding officer of the Senate
takes with him the handsome brass fire set pro-
vided for the Vice Presidents room. This GUS
tom has, however only prevailed since the war.
The only cases in which the custom was not OBJ
served were those of Vice President Hendricks
and president pro tenn. Bayard, the former ying,
and tho latter serving only one day.
The impression that something will be done at
the coming session of Congress to reduce tho
amount of income now derived from the tariff is
strengthening, but what that something is seems
to be as indefinite as ever.